^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Three large pizzas a day for the last six months of your life. Don't let Greta know!

I’d in the “cheap pine box in the back 40” if I was sure my family would never leave the property but that’s not a given. I refuse to be buried in a cemetery for multiple reasons, not the least of which is the absurd cost. My first choice is cremation and scattered in the ocean as long as it didn’t end like this…

I want my burial to be as cheap as possible. I'd be happy with a plywood coffin. My only hesitation is that my boys tell me they're going to bury me with a Hi point 9mm in my hand. Yo, that's desecration.....

The best way to 'recycle' a person is to drop them in a salt marsh... takes just a couple of days to be only bones.. It's what I would like my friends to do to me... then a couple of weeks later go to the local sea food shop and buy a lot of shrimp and crabs and have one hell of a party.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
I want my burial to be as cheap as possible. I'd be happy with a plywood coffin. My only hesitation is that my boys tell me they're going to bury me with a Hi point 9mm in my hand. Yo, that's desecration.....

It does take a Hi-Point out of circulation… so it’s got that going for it.

I've left instructions that I'm to be stood on tiptoe and driven into the ground with a croquet mallet.

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Originally posted by hrcjon:
what is the actual practical difference between actively doing it via composting and passively doing it via burial? Me I'm into a pyre but I understand that adds to my carbon footprint, but so be it. I like a good fire.

Inside a concrete liner, your decomposed body goes nowhere and I suppose after some time, the nutritional value goes to zero. The other way, you can be part of the circle of life.

I really don't have a problem with this other than I see the funeral people still get their slice. Better than floating your dead body down some river.

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The best way to 'recycle' a person is to drop them in a salt marsh... takes just a couple of days to be only bones.

The funeral business has a machine that does this in just several hours, same concept. You go down the drain and your bones are all that is left.

The EPA has already changed the definition of compost to include biosolids (aka biosludge). Biosolids is the dried out solids (e.g. fecal matter) from the sewage treatment plant with no limits on chemicals, heavy metals, etc. Biosolids is labeled as compost with no mention whatsoever on package AND they're allowed to label as organic. It's being spread on farmers fields, it's being blended into organic fertilizer, etc. so it's in our food supply.

I have the same concern with "composting" human corpses. It's going to end up as fertilizer on our crops.

As an FYI, most places don’t accept the use of “bio solids” as organic.

Human waste tends to have lots of heavy metals and pharmaceutical contamination - not sure how good a job sewage plants do with that

Governor Hochul will get every red wiggler worm in New York voting for her next time around.

Here in MQT, they have embraced "green burials". The city set aside a portion of Park Cemetery for this practice. No embalming or a biodegradable embalming fluid is used, then a cloth shroud (bag?) and a biodegradable coffin. Dig the hole and drop you in it. Done.
I walk past the green burial plot frequently and have yet to see it used.
I often research and visit historic and pioneer cemeteries here in the Yoop. You will see coffin sized depressions in the ground where the coffins degraded and the soil above them fell in. So, everything old is new again!

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Inside a concrete liner, your decomposed body goes nowhere and I suppose after some time, the nutritional value goes to zero.

I've seen the documentary on cable TV several times.
You just dump a few buckets full of live scarabs into the sarcophagus along with the body. Works antemortem, too.

Washington State was the first in 2019. Not sure what I think about all this ...

How can they claim this is "green", there is a lot of Carbon in a human body and what is produced during decomposition is the exact same gas that is present in Cow Farts.

Yeah, we have two choices how our body is dealt with, you either Go Up in Smoke or you turn into Cow Farts.

I want my remains scattered around Walt Disney World. But I don't want to be cremated.

^^^^Woodchipper?

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Yeah, we have two choices how our body is dealt with, you either Go Up in Smoke or you turn into Cow Farts.

Three. The method I mentioned up above used water (sort of) and you go down the drain as a fluid minus your bones. They claim it's one of the more ecofriendly ways to do it and has been used for a while to get rid of roadkill and other misc. dead critters.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Here in MQT, they have embraced "green burials". The city set aside a portion of Park Cemetery for this practice. No embalming or a biodegradable embalming fluid is used, then a cloth shroud (bag?) and a biodegradable coffin. Dig the hole and drop you in it. Done.

There was a tv show about something similar. Your put in a canvas bag and naturally buried. They drop a GPS unit in there with you so family could stop at the office and get a tracker to lead to your location.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
I want my burial to be as cheap as possible. I'd be happy with a plywood coffin. My only hesitation is that my boys tell me they're going to bury me with a Hi point 9mm in my hand. Yo, that's desecration.....

It does take a Hi-Point out of circulation… so it’s got that going for it.

That's hardly a consolation prize...lol